In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent
In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.
Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
You have to believe in them now. Christ believed in you when there was nothing to believe in.
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest. . . put the public interest above the vested interest.
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Is the leadership of the worldwide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others one by one to Jesus Christ? We are so concerned with planning and administration that there is a danger lest we allow these things to serve as an excuse for not doing the one thing on which all else depends.
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?
Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.
People learn to lead because they care about something.
